Digital Classicist London Seminar 2016
Institute of Classical Studies Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Friday July 22nd at 16:30 in room 234
Dr Stelios Chronopoulos (Freiburg) New Life into Old Courses? Using Digital Tools in Reading and Prose Composition Classes
Is it possible and desirable to use treebanking and translation alignment tools in courses of prose composition and close reading? This seminar will present an experiment of introducing such tools in Greek courses at the University of Freiburg. The hypothesis is that digital tools extend the ways we interact with texts both as readers and writers, and enhance consciousness, thus promoting learning. We will test this hypothesis and reflect upon the possibilities of combining analogic reading with analysis through digital tools and the impact this combination may have on our understanding either of an original text or of a text we produce for exercise purposes.
Recommended readings: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2016-08sc.html
The seminar will be livestreamed at: https://youtu.be/dfUOpT4gyg4
ALL WELCOME
Valeria Vitale PhD candidate King's College London Department of Digital Humanities 26-29 Drury Lane, Boris Karloff Building WC2B 5RL London UK +44(0)7413335591